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| Injured making an arrest, police dog becomes a celebrity
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 20-June-2013
5:33:34 AM |
| He waited by an elevator on the 13th floor of Police Headquarters, the final stop Wednesday in a whirlwind of television appearances and newspaper interviews since his line-of-duty injury the previous day: broken teeth, swollen snout.
So the day went for Bear, a 6-year-old German shepherd with the Transit Bureau, and his handler, Officer Vincent Tieniber, after what had seemed a routine call Tuesday morning turned into something else.
They were coming to the aid of an officer who was trying to break up a fight among four women on a subway platform at Lexington Avenue and 59th Street.
"Ninety-nine percent of the time, when we come to the scene, people cooperate," said Tieniber, 36, who has been on the force for 11 years. "No one really wants to be bit by a dog."
Instead of backing down, however, one of the women kicked Bear in the face as she struggled with the two officers. When she kicked a second time, Tieniber said, Bear caught her foot in his mouth.
He "apprehended her foot, and held her" until the officers could handcuff her, Tieniber added.
If the misdemeanors three of the women were charged with were not the usual stuff of New York crime headlines, the dog's involvement captured the imagination of reporters and the police, who issued a detailed rundown of the events and Bear's service history.
"Bear and his handler have been in tough spots before," the department's chief spokesman, Paul J Browne, wrote in an article-length dispatch late Tuesday that described earlier arrests - for robbery and assault - as well as evidence searches aided by "the combination of Officer Tieniber's handling skills and Bear's olfactory prowess."
The episode almost overshadowed a fatal police shooting in Brooklyn early Wednesday. The police said an officer, responding to a robbery in progress, returned fire when a gunman, identified as Thomas Robinson, 50, shot at him and his partner with a .357 Magnum revolver. "It's a big gun," Browne said.
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